Preponderance : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Preponderance	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
preponderance n superiority in power or influence; "the preponderance of good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power" a superiority in numbers or amount; "a preponderance of evidence against the defendant" Synonym(s): preponderance, prevalence exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight; "the least preponderance in either pan will unbalance the scale"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Preponderance \Prepon"derance\, Preponderancy \Prepon"derancy\, n. [Cf. F. pr[82]pond[82]rance.] 1. The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing. The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability. --Locke. In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance* of one power had destroyed. --Macaulay. 2. (Gun.) The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.